missio+qc

missĭo, ōnis, f. [id.].

In gen., a letting go, sending away, a sending, despatching; a throwing, hurling (class.):

litterarum,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 3:

legatorum,

id. Phil. 7, 1, 1:

extra telorum missionem,

beyond the range of missiles, Vitr. 2, 9, 16; 1, 5, 4:

missio sanguinis,

blood-letting, Cels. 2, 10 fin.; Suet. Calig. 29.—

In partic.

A release from captivity, setting at liberty, liberation:

munus pro missione dare,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 114:

si filius familias post missionem faciat testimentum,

Gai. Inst. 2, 106.—

A discharge from service (of soldiers, office-holders, gladiators, etc.), a dismission (syn. exauctoratio):

praemium missionis ferre,

Caes. B. C. 1, 86: quibus (militibus) senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negāsset ante belli finem. Liv. 26, 1:

exercitum purgare missionibus turbulentorum hominum,

id. 7, 39; cf.: missionum generales causae sunt tres: honesta, causaria, ignominiosa. Honesta est, quae tempore militiae impleto datur: causaria cum quis vitio animi vel corporis minus idoneus militiae renunciatur;

ignominiosa causa est, cum quis propter delictum sacramento solvitur,

Dig. 49, 16, 13:

gratiosa ante emerita stipendia,

a discharge obtained by favor, Liv. 43, 14, 9:

nondum justa,

id. 43, 14, 15.—Of a quaestor, Suet. Caes. 7.—

Esp., of gladiators, release, respite, quarter: cum Myrino peteretur missio laeso, Mart. 12, 29, 7:

non enim servavit is, qui non interfecit, nec beneficium dedit, sed missionem,

Sen. Ben. 2, 20, 3.—Hence, sine missione, without favor, without quarter, to the death, Liv. 41, 20, 12.— Trop.:

quid prodest, paucos dies aut annos lucrificare? sine missione nascimur,

without respite in the service of wisdom, Sen. Ep. 37, 2:

sine missione pugnatum est,

for life or death, Flor. 3, 20, 4.—

A cessation, termination, end:

ante ludorum missionem,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 8.—

Remission from punishment: missionem puero dedit, qs. let him go, Petr. 52.—

In jurid. lang., a delivering up, giving possession:

missio in aedes,

Dig. 39, 2, 15, § 12.

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ex-auctōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Milit. t. t., to discharge from service (after sixteen years of service, before the end of the usual term of twenty years, i. e. before the regular missio; see missio. This discharge was either an honorable one or a punishment. The honorably discharged soldiers remained four years in the army as a separate corps under a vexillum, with peculiar privileges; cf. mitto, dimitto).

Prop.

Of an honorable discharge (not ante-Aug.):

omnes milites exauctorati domum dimitterentur,

Liv. 32, 1; 25, 20; 29, 1; 36, 40 fin.; 41, 5 fin.; Suet. Tib. 30; Tac. A. 1, 36 fin.:

milites licentia sola se, ubi velint, exauctorent,

Liv. 8, 34, 9.—

In a bad sense, to dismiss, cashier on account of a crime = dimittere ignominiae causa, Dig. 3, 2, 2, § 2; Suet. Aug. 24; id. Vitell. 10; id. Vesp. 8; Tac. H. 1, 20; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 638 a.—

Trop.:

verba exauctorata a sequenti aetate repudiataque,

discarded, obsolete, Macr. S. 1, 5.

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causārĭus, a, um, adj. [causa, II. D.].

In medic. lang., sick, diseased, ill (not ante-Aug.):

corpus,

Sen. Q. N. 1 praef. §

4: partes, quibus adhibenda curatio est,

id. Ep. 68, 7:

dens,

Marc. Emp. 12:

dentes,

Plin. 23, 3, 37, § 75.— Subst.:

causarii vel latere vel faucibus,

sick, Plin. 25, 5, 25, § 61:

oculorum,

Marc. Emp. 8.—

In milit. lang., discharged on account of ill health, invalid, Liv. 6, 6, 14.—Hence, missio, a discharge from military service on account of sickness, a liberation from service, Dig. 3, 2, 2; 29, 1, 26; 49, 16, 13; App. M. 4, p. 144, 16.—

* Adv.: causārĭē, on account of sickness:

qui causarie missus est,

Dig. 49, 16, 13, § 2.

festīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cf. Gr. theinô; Lat. -fendo in defendo, offendo, -festus in manifestus, etc., and fustis, Corss. Ausspr. 2, 190; Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 255].

Neutr., to hasten, make haste, hurry, be quick (class.; not in Caes.; syn.: propero, celero, maturo): aliud est properare, aliud festinare. Qui unum quid mature transigit, is properat: qui multa simul incipit neque perficit, is festinat, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 14, 2; id. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. properare, p. 235 Müll.; ap. Non. 441, 22:

propemodum quid illic festinet sentio,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 14:

aput nos eccillam festinat cum sorore uxor tua,

id. Stich. 4, 1, 30:

quid festinas?

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 8; cf.:

quamquam festinas, non est mora longa,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 35; Sall. Fragm. ap. Don. Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 8:

ibi,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 3, 4:

plura scripsissem, nisi tui festinarent,

Cic. Fam. 12, 22, 4; cf. id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

solent nautae festinare quaestus sui causa,

id. Fam. 16, 9, 4:

esseda festinant, pilenta, petorrita, naves,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 192:

in provinciam festinare,

Quint. 6, 3, 39:

ad portas,

Sall. J. 69, 2; cf.:

ad singulare Antonii factum festinat oratio,

Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

ad probationem,

Quint. 4, 3, 8; cf. id. 4, 5, 10:

quis te festinare jubet?

Juv. 14, 212.—Prov.: festina lente (speude bradeôs), Suet. Aug. 25.

Transf., as v. a., to make haste with a thing, to hasten, hurry, accelerate, do speedily.

With an object-clause (class.):

ut migrare tanto opere festines,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23 fin.:

ne festinaret abire,

Sall. J. 64, 4:

ultum ire injurias,

id. ib. 68, 1:

finem imponere,

Quint. 9, 4, 146:

sequi,

Curt. 6, 6, 25:

componere lites,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 12:

quae laedunt oculum, festinas demere,

id. ib. 1, 2, 38:

terris advertere proram,

Verg. G. 4, 117:

aram congerere arboribus,

id. A. 6, 177; cf.:

callidus id modo festinabat, Bocchi pacem imminuere, ne, etc.,

Sall. J. 81 fin.:

universis prodesse festinet,

Inscr. Orell. 775.—

With acc. (not in Cic.): festivum festinant diem, hasten to celebrate, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 401 (Trag. v. 434 ed. Vahl.):

ni id festinaret,

Sall. J. 77, 1:

ad bellum cuncta,

id. ib. 73, 1: soleas festinate (sc. dare), id. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 425:

festinare fugam,

Verg. A. 4, 575:

vias,

Stat. Th. 2, 478:

poenas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 61:

pyram,

Sil. 8, 52:

vestes,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 128:

caedes, patibula, ignes, cruces,

Tac. A. 14, 33:

mortem in se,

to bring on speedily, id. ib. 4, 28:

pyram,

prepares in haste, Sil. 8, 52.—In pass.:

quod animo cupienti nihil satis festinatur,

Sall. J. 64 fin.:

ea cuncta per idoneos ministros festinabantur,

Tac. H. 2, 82:

cum belli civilis praemia festinarentur,

id. ib. 3, 37:

nec virgines festinantur,

are not married early, id. G. 20:

adoptio festinatur,

id. A. 12, 25; 6, 50; id. H. 3, 37.—In part. perf., hastened, accelerated:

festinata maturitas,

Quint. 6 praef. § 10;

iter,

Ov. P. 4, 5, 8:

missio,

Tac. A. 1, 52:

casus,

id. ib. 6, 44:

nuptiae,

Suet. Aug. 69:

honores,

i. e. obtained before the proper time, Luc. 8, 24; Plin. Pan. 69, 5:

festinatis annis raptus,

by an early death, Mart. 7, 40, 7; cf.:

festinatis lictorum manibus in carcerem raptus,

Tac. A. 6, 40:

mors domini gladiis tam festinata,

prematurely inflicted, Juv. 4, 96.—

With se, to make haste, Gell. 14, 2, 9.—Hence,

festīnans, antis, P. a., hasty, in haste:

ille properans, festinans, mandata vestra conficere cupiens,

Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6:

haec festinans scripsi in itinere atque agmine,

id. Att. 6, 4 fin. —Adv.: festīnanter, hastily, speedily, quickly (class.):

improbe, turbide, festinanter, rapide omnia videtis esse suscepta, Cic. Scaur. § 37: nimium festinanter dictum,

id. Fin. 5, 26, 77.— Comp.:

compositius cuncta quam festinantius agerent,

Tac. A. 15, 3:

factum quid,

Gell. 10, 11, 8:

publicatum,

Suet. Aug. 29:

germinant,

Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 78.— Sup.:

festinantissime,

Aug. Ep. 250.—

festīnāto, adv., hastily, hurriedly (post-Aug.):

quam nihil praeparato, nihil festinato fecisse videtur Milo,

Quint. 4, 2, 58; Suet. Claud. 16; Vulg. Gen. 44, 11 al.

grātĭōsus, a, um, adj. [gratia], full of favor.

Enjoying favor, in favor, popular, regarded, beloved, agreeable, etc. (class.;

a favorite expression with Cicero, and used mostly of persons): ego Plancium et ipsum gratiosum esse dico et habuisse in petitione multos cupidos sui gratiosos, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 19, 46:

homini honesto, sed non gratiosiori quam Cn. Calidius est,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 44:

cum adversario gratiosissimo contendat,

id. Quint. 1, 2:

homines potentes, gratiosi, diserti,

id. Cael. 9, 21; cf.:

splendidi homines et aliis praetoribus gratiosi,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 37:

Pythius, qui esset ut argentarius apud omnes ordines gratiosus,

id. Off. 3, 14, 58; cf. id. Planc. 18, 44; id. Att. 15, 4, 3:

ut ego doceo gratiosum esse in sua tribu Plancium,

id. Planc. 19, 47; cf.:

sunt quidam homines in suis vicinitatibus et municipiis gratiosi,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 6, 24:

is cum et suo splendore et nostra commendatione gratiosissimus in provincia fuit,

Cic. Fam. 1, 3.—Of things:

vidi et cognovi, causas apud te rogantium gratiosiores esse quam vultus,

id. Lig. 11, 31:

gratiosa missio,

through favor, Liv. 43, 14, 9:

sententia,

Dig. 3, 6, 5; cf.:

Berytensis colonia Augusti beneficiis gratiosa,

favored, ib. 50, 15, 1:

cupressus odore violenta ac ne umbra quidem gratiosa, materie rara,

Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 139.—

That shows favor, obliging, complaisant (very rare):

gratiosi scribae sint in dando et cedendo loco,

Cic. Brut. 84, 290.—Hence, adv.: grātĭōse, out of favor, graciously (postclass. and very rare):

neque sordide neque gratiose,

Dig. 26, 7, 7, § 2.— Comp.:

gratiosius,

Pseudo Ascon. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 11.

ignōmĭnĭōsus, a, um, adj. [ignominia], disgraceful, shameful, ignominious (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

Of persons:

exsul eras, ignominiosus,

branded with public ignominy, Quint. 7, 1, 8:

filia,

Dig. 48, 5, 24; cf.:

quid eos qui huic ignominioso agmini fuere obvii, existimasse putatis,

Liv. 2, 38, 4:

quibusdam judiciis damnati ignominiosi fiunt, velut furti, vi bonorum raptorum, etc.,

Gai. Inst. 4, 182.— Hence, subst.: ignōmĭnĭōsus, i, m., a person branded with ignominy, one publicly disgraced:

nec concilium inire ignominioso fas,

Tac. G. 6; Quint. 3, 6, 75; 77; 7, 5, 3.—In plur.:

ignominiosis notas dempsit,

Suet. Vit. 8.—

Of inanim. and abstr. things:

ignominiosissimum caput,

Tert. Apol. 15: ignominiosa et flagitiosa dominatio, * Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 34:

fuga,

Liv. 3, 23, 5:

dicta (with immunda),

Hor. A. P. 247: missio, disgraceful dismissal (of a soldier), Dig. 49, 16, 3.— Adv.: ignōmĭnĭōsē, ignominiously, disgracefully:

pugnare,

Eutr. 4, 24; 26.— Comp.:

ab hominibus magis nullis ignominiosius eos tractari, quam a vobis,

Arn. 4, 147.— Sup.:

ignominiosissime fugere,

Oros. 7, 7 fin.